Lauren Herzak-Bauman

Associate Lecturer of Art (Foundations)

Office: 218 KFA
Phone:715.425.3267
Email: lauren.herzak-bauman@uwrf.edu
Website: www.laurenhb.com

Through the use of fired and unfired clay and found objects, Minneapolis artist Lauren Herzak-Bauman creates sculptures and installations about death and loss, commemoration and mourning. Her work has been exhibited at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Northern Arizona University Art Museum and at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA. Lauren keeps a studio at the former Canada Dry bottling warehouse in Minneapolis.

Education

• Master of Fine Arts, University of Minnesota, 2009
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bowling Green State University, 2004
  
  

Artist Statement

Making things in clay links shifting states of emotion, documenting and communicating a struggle through materiality. This constant shifting state is interpreted and digested through the use of layering, both in ceramic and raw form, to produce an object or environment. I connect clay with ideas of strength and fragility, presence and absence, death and loss. Working spontaneously or in a stream of conscious manner allows raw emotion and gesture to emerge through the material.

My experience with bereavement drives me to consider how loss affects the living; in particular the transition one makes from suffering from the death of a loved one to living with and housing that loss. Creating site-specific installations reaffirms my conviction that grief and mourning deserve a visual existence.

Solo Exhibitions

• Recent Works Screen Ink, Lincoln, NE
• The Parlor Room Arthouse New London; New London, MN
• Speaking Volumes 1300 Gallery, Cleveland, OH
  
  

Selected Exhibitions

• Aaron Macy Scholarship Exhibition, Bowling Green State University Fine Arts Galleries, Bowling Green, OH
• Northern Arizona University Museum, Flagstaff, AZ
• Other Nature Bahdeebahdu, Philadelphia, PA
• NEXPO National Council on the Education of Ceramic Arts, Philadelphia, PA
• At the ‘brary Library Shanty—Medicine Lake Branch, Art Shanty Projects, Plymouth, MN
• All Fired Up: The Ceramic Arts in Minnesota Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN
• Contemporary 1419 Art Space, Minneapolis, MN
• Visions of Women, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• The Austerity Cookbook, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
• 6th Annual Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Ceramics Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
• Thesis: Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  
  

Awards/Grants/Commissions

• Joye G. Harris Fellowship
• Pioneer Scholarship
• Brown McKenzie Arts Scholarship
• Aaron Macy Scholarship
  
  

Collections

• Bruce and Karen Gershman
• Insurance Systems Northeast Ohio
• Marc and Nancy Rosenberg
  
  

Publications

• Deni Kasrel, Other Nature @ Bahdeebahdu, Uwishunu, May 25, 2010
• Rebecca Miller, In Minnesota, A Weekend Library on a Frozen Lake, The Library Journal, February 5, 2010
  
• Matt Peikken, Art shanty projects, 3-minute egg, January 19, 2010
  
• Ian Bourland, The Austerity Cookbook, Art Forum Critics’ Picks, September 28, 2009
  
• Bob Fagerbaugh, Soap Factory Sept 09, Soap Factory Gallery 4, September, 2009
  
• Becky Lang, The Austerity Cookbook @ The Soap Factory, Metro Mag, September 4, 2009
  
• Diane Mullin, 2008 YEAR IN REVIEW: The Big Picture for Minnesota Arts, mnartists.org, January 8, 2009
• Matt Peiken, Visual thesis, April 7, 2009
  
  

International Experiences

• Ceramics tour of China
• Study abroad in Florence, Italy
• Traveled to Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Turkey, China, Tibet